Christmas Book Advent

I've seen lots of other people do the same idea, so it is nothing new, but a fun tradition to start.  I wanted to do the book advent last year, but we were moving and traveling during Christmas.
Anyway, today we started our Christmas Book Advent.  Each day the kids have a book to open, and then we will do an activity to go along with the book.  They are not new books; some are ones we already have, others will be library books.  We are doing it in the morning after our calendar time.  So we know what day it is and which number to open.

We started today with Henry Bear's Christmas by David Mcphail.  The book starts with it being the 1st day of December, which made it a good fit for today.

In the book Henry Bear makes a chain to decorate his tree.

The kids were very excited about making a pattern with green and red.

And they chose to decorate the dining room rather than the tree.

I got the numbers for the presents from here.  They are supposed to be red and green, but apparently my ink is running low.